Kindling compound and process of making same.



Patented. July 5, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFICE.

MIKE PERRY AND ALEXANDER DICKSON, OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON.

KINDLING COMPOUND AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 764,072, dated July 5,1904.

Application filed March 16, 1904. Serial No. 198,380. (No specimens.)

To all w/wm, it may concern:

Be it known that we, MIKE PERRY and ALEx- ANDER DICKSON, citizens of theUnited States of America, and residents of Tacoma, in the county ofPierce and State of Washington, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Kindling Compounds and Processes of Making Same, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a substance for kindling fires in stoves, &c.,and to the process of making the same, and has for its object theproduction of a mixture which will readily take fire and will burn foraconsiderable time with a hot flame, so as to light a fire of wood orcoal without any difliculty.

In the lighting of fires without the use of a specially-preparedsubstance it is necessary to burn considerable paper to light thefinelycut wood and to have a quantity of split sticks of wood with whichto Work up suflicient heat to ignite the coal. In our mixture we take anumber of inflammable materials and form them into a solid mass. Thematerials which we use all burn freely of themselves, but at varyingrates and intensities, and the mixture itself burns with a hot flamewhich lasts a long time and which is hot enough to ignite and sustainthe combustion of the coal until it is hot enough to burn Withoutoutside aid.

In preparing our substance we take seven pounds of sawdust, one andone-half pounds of shavings cut up into small particles, and two poundsof paper torn or cut into small pieces and mix them together thoroughly;then we pour in one pound of crude oil and allow it to soak thoroughlyinto the mixture; then we take one pound of English resin, melt it, andstir therein the mixed ingredients above mentioned. The mass thus formedis then pressed into forms and allowed to cool. When cold, it is cut inconvenient lengths and is ready for use.

The mass lights very readily on being touched with a match and continuesto burn so as to ignite any combustible material in its vicinity.

The mass may be molded into any form while still warm and plastic, theresin holding the various parts together in the shape desired; but weprefer to form it into simple shapes, such as rectangular bricks,cylindrical pieces, long pieces resembling sticks, or into coils.

What We claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The process of making kindling compound, consisting of mixingtogether sawdust, paper, shavings; pouring crude oil in said mixture andallowing it to soak and be absorbed therein; melting resin and mixingtherein said sawdust, paper and shavings; allowing said mixture to cooland forming the mass into shapes.

2. A kindling compound consisting of a mixture of sawdust, paper, andshavings with crude oil absorbed therein, said mixture having been madein molten resin whereby all the parts thereof are held together, and maybe formed into shapes.

Signed at Tacoma this 8th day of March, 1904.

MIKE PERRY. ALEXANDER DICKSON. Witnesses:

F. P. HASKELL, Jr., WVILLIAM E. WINDSOR.

